Sentence examples for gully from inspiring English sources

'gully' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It can be used to describe a narrow ravine or ditch. For example: "After a heavy rainstorm, the valley was filled with gullies that the river had carved into the ground."

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gully

noun

A trench, ravine or narrow channel which was worn by water flow, especially on a hillside.

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He jabbed, bat at a familiar angle, and the ball ballooned gently to gully.

At other times they had five slips and a gully, along with two men on the hook, with only one man – McCullum – in front of the bat.

"Rijkaard launches the spit from here, now stop it there," he observed, before getting to work with his magic pen and charting the trajectory of the offending gully with an illustrative squiggle.

It is reached via a footbridge over a gully which carries sewage down to the city's drinking water.

Its long gully of battle-scarred buildings, leading almost to the gates of America's fortified Green Zone, encapsulates the city's violent recent history.

Without funds from the Black Dragon's hillside temple, in a gully behind the village, the school would not exist.

Mr Van Dyk cautiously says that rates of illiteracy and alcoholism among those living on Tswalu seem to be falling.Some of the oldest rock art in the world has been found in a remote gully on the reserve.

The stream that feeds the gully is brown and foamy.

THE Communist Party secretary of the village of Tangan, Zhao Hezeng, surveys the yellowing stalks in the paddy fields and the tar-black water in the gully alongside.

Private Charlie Rangel was lying in a gully where an explosion had tossed him, punctured with shrapnel and scared to death.

On July 18th, Swissair's share price bounced up 17% off the bottom of the deep gully into which it has fallen from its alpine peak in 1998.Under the terms of this week's deal, Swissair will retain its 49.5% holding in Sabena.

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